Isbn: 9780716731429 - undue risk: secret state experiments on humans from the second world war to iraq and beyond (9 risultati)

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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 368 pages. In 1994, Jonathan Moreno became a senior staff member of a special commission created by President Clinton to investigate allegations of government-sponsored radiation research on unknowing citizens during the cold war. The top secret do cuments he helped to declassify revealed a shocking truth-- that human experimen tation played an extensive role in this country's attempts to build and protect against weapons of mass destruction.In Undue Risk, Moreno presents the fi rst comprehensive history of the use of human subjects in atomic, biological, an d chemical warfare experiments from World War II to the twenty-first century. Fr om the courtrooms of Nuremberg to the battlefields of the Gulf War, Undue Risk e xplores a variety of government policies and specific cases, including plutonium injections into unwitting hospital patients, U.S. government attempts to recrui t Nazi medical scientists, the subjection of soldiers to atomic blast fallout, s ecret LSD and mescaline studies, and the feeding of irradiated oatmeal to childr en. It is also the first book to go behind the scenes and reveal the government' s struggle with the ethics of human experimentation and the evolution of agonizi ng policy choices on unfamiliar moral terrain.As the threat of foreign an d domestic terrorist attack continues to grow, the need for our country to defen d itself against insidious weapons is greater than ever. Can a democracy justify using humans in potentially risky experiments in order to answer scientific que stions vital to national security? Exploring the possibilities, Undue Risk highl ights a program of human experimentation that is a moral model for all others, c ivilian and military.…

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